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Post by matt on Mar 29, 2024 14:27:10 GMT -5
I mean, it isn’t much to ask for a proper quality live gig to be included, like an audio version of Live By The Sea? Is it?
Familiar to Millions ain't all that, Knebworth is vastly overrated when Maine Road should have been released, and the live performances chosen on the 2014 reissues were mediocre compared to what we know is out there.
Why is this so difficult for Ignition to grasp??
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Post by matt on Mar 25, 2024 17:35:53 GMT -5
Sums up Joe Rogan's chat Absolutely the FUNNIEST pic I've seen in a while! LMAO Just used it as an excuse for my love of the Steamed Hams scene.
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Post by matt on Mar 24, 2024 18:10:10 GMT -5
I see they're bringing out an Oasis range of Cabbage Patch Kids.
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 20:19:40 GMT -5
Talking of The Hindu Times, does anyone know what the tune is playing at the beginning of the video is, or is it just noodling on the piano and guitar?
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 19:59:00 GMT -5
Anyone seen One Hour Photo with Robin Williams?
Watched it as a typical psychological thriller, expectedly unsettling through 90% of it, but come the last scenes and end credits, it wasn't so much as unsettling but extremely sad. Impressive but unbelievably bleak.
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 13:54:53 GMT -5
Sums up Joe Rogan's chat Get the right interviewer and it's great, just not that many over the years sadly. This one was good.
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 9:19:53 GMT -5
Eleanor Rigby I'm Only Sleeping Here, There, and Everywhere She Said She Said And Your Bird Can Sing For No One I Want to Tell You Got to Get You Into My Life Tomorrow Never Knows and if you add Paperback Writer and Rain... Hard to beat Revolver for me. I'm going to sound like an iconoclast.... but the recording of Here, There & Everywhere doesn't do it for me. Paul lays it on thick with a very sweet syrupy vocal. His version on Give My Regards To Broad Street is far better. No double track, less sweet and more heartfelt. It's a great great song, but probably the one great song of theirs that in my mind was botched in the studio.
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Post by matt on Mar 23, 2024 9:15:57 GMT -5
The north/north west of England + Irish heritage = good music
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 20:12:13 GMT -5
The middle eight of Let There Be Love is one of Noel's best melodies ever, peaks and falls, rises again like a symphony.
It says something on a post-glory years Oasis album that he could still drop in melody that all other bands would kill for. Even Coldplay at their height during this time didn't have melodies nearly as good as that bit.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 18:03:51 GMT -5
You can tell Oasis means the most to her. What a photo that is of Liam at the head of the article, and the Maine Road one with Noel's arms out wide encapsulates the band.
The old terraced houses in the background, a rickety old football stadium and a bunch of lads off a nearby estate soaking up the adulation of thousands of people. No glitz or glamour, there's nothing manufactured or contrived about this, its the most authentic picture in rock n roll history.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 18:00:45 GMT -5
It's Sgt. Pepper and it is not even close. It's overrated to say the album is overrated. Paul is the coolest to say 'fuck you Rolling Stones and you're desperate attempts to be rebellious' and then decides that old Edwardian style jaunty tunes are gonna be cool instead.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 17:58:46 GMT -5
A toss up between Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 17:57:18 GMT -5
I remember the title I Stand Alone already circulating back in the end of 2000, when there started to be rumors about the next album. End of 2000? Is it really that old? If so that's quite a jump in songwriting development for Liam, from Little James to Morning Son in the space of a year.
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Post by matt on Mar 22, 2024 17:55:46 GMT -5
In Noel's HFBs launch press conference in 2011 he said The Morning Son had 'been around for the best part of 5 years'. If that is reasonably accurate then it's a DOYS-era demo rather than DBTT. Assuming 'I Stand Alone' is the same song, surely its earlier?
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Post by matt on Mar 21, 2024 18:38:00 GMT -5
Brilliant, I prefer the vocals to this one than the Beady Eye version. No need for the echo vocal but definitely suits that raw feel. Could have potentially worked for Dig Out Your Soul as a closer, if it followed Soldier On which I've always liked.
Always felt Solider On could have been expanded and lengthened into some dark psychedelic jam at the end. Has something sinister going on which only hints at what it could have been so the band should have pushed it. It would have been epic for it's an album in desperate need for some life at the end.
In my mind, it could have worked as some kind of nightmarish trip followed by The Morning Son that would have been a perfect respite from the heaviness of that. Adding light to the shade.
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Post by matt on Mar 21, 2024 18:17:27 GMT -5
Sounds like something from their first album Good Feeling. I like it a lot.
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Post by matt on Mar 20, 2024 17:31:39 GMT -5
These are smaller gigs though, I think they can be forgiven for not playing Oasis or Roses tracks. Liam does his own thing to cater to that, and him singing Roses songs would feel a bit odd. It's probably a good idea to see just as a side project and entirely its own thing.
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Post by matt on Mar 20, 2024 17:27:06 GMT -5
When discussing climate change, we talk of “saving the planet” which I think gives the wrong message. The planet will be fine. Like Beady said, the earth will heal itself. It’s humanity as we know it that we are destroying. I think if that message was pushed harder, the devastation that humans will endure, there would be more concern from everyday people. Sadly, not enough people will care until it’s too late. I think its spot on, you need the personal element to take hold. Outside of that, just talking nature for nature's sake is abstract and disconnected from people's lives. There's a local element to it too, especially in urban areas where the environment and nature doesn't come as naturally to those in rural areas. If there's a way for people to become engaged with the biodiversity on their doorstep, whether through parks or riverspaces (just a couple of examples of nature in an urban environment), it might just frame environmentalism through a local lens. Exposing the destruction of the environment on your doorstep is always going to be more personal and intimate way of getting the message through than just saying the planet is warming up at an alarming rate.
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Post by matt on Mar 20, 2024 17:14:53 GMT -5
climate change yes, man-made climate change no. Beyond stupid. Do not tell me you don't believe experts. Or, let me guess, are they all wrapped up in some global agenda conspiracy?
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Post by matt on Mar 20, 2024 17:11:26 GMT -5
Wouldn't generally be excited for a Beady Eye track but The Morning Son is one of their best tunes, or Liam's certainly. Not sure it would fit the flow of Don't Believe The Truth, but hoping it maintains a raw and stripped back approach of that album. Would certainly whet the appetite for more recordings and demos from that era.
So much material floating around from that era, and it makes Don't Believe The Truth ever more fascinating. It's a good album, but like so many great acts, you think there's probably a much better album lurking around somewhere with an alternative tracklisting. Noel had gotten over the rut he was in, Liam's songwriting had hit a purple patch and even Gem and Andy's contributions were fine. If ever Oasis were to do a 'White Album' this was the time. I do get a sense from Don't Believe The Truth that there was more effort put into it than their other albums around that time. Its flaws are also forgivable given the difficult nature of recording that album.
A shame that Dig Out Your Soul is so lacklustre in comparison. What they recorded we pretty much have barring a couple of tracks, they went in with a set list of songs to record and sometimes I think that lack of chaos and variety translates onto what I feel is a pretty drab and unmelodic album.
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Post by matt on Mar 16, 2024 14:29:31 GMT -5
I think it's their fourth best album (fifth if you include Masterplan compilation), after the obvious two and Be Here Now. I was listening to it on the train yesterday. It's light, it doesn't lumber around and flows decently. Liam's songwriting is really important on this album as it lifts it for me, even the much derided Meaning of Soul is fine as a wee interlude. I actually like its simple acoustic punky charm. The only ones I couldn't really manage were A Bell Will Ring and Keep The Dream Alive, but I was surprised that I didn't hate them like I used to and that they were okay at worst. It's a good album. Nothing more, nothing less. Yes, the album could and should have been better what with the material that was floating around at the time, and maybe its ultimate peaks are not as high as their other albums from that era but, unlike the others, it doesn't descend to the depths of depravity. It's consistently good, and entirely listenable for me. Having followed your posts for many years, it's a pleasant surprise to see you so positive about some 00s Oasis. And thank you for throwing the "depths of depravity" line in for old times' sake. A wonderfully droll and disparaging comment, fitting for a Smiths fan. Maybe I listened to it in a good mood! I half expected myself to go back to saying I'd projectile vomited when A Bell Will Ring came on, but no, I listened again a couple of days ago, and yep, definitely a good album! On a more serious note, maybe its the part of me saying I really miss Oasis. That pining for them has only become stronger because both Noel and Liam's current work doesn't float my boat. It's the first time I've felt since the split that the post-Oasis work doesn't hold any interest for me anymore.
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Post by matt on Mar 16, 2024 14:26:52 GMT -5
Another thing that surprises me is Married With Children being that high. Maybe the most understated of their songs in the prime years, yet more plays than a lot of their bigger tunes.
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Post by matt on Mar 16, 2024 14:25:14 GMT -5
Surprised at how low the Don't Believe The Truth singles are. Importance of Being Idle is lower than I thought, and that there's no Lyla on that list either.
I remember those tunes being all over the radio back in the day. But then again, I was 14 years old when those were released - prime age for musical awakenings, everything seems massive then so maybe its all 'pure subjective fantasy' as a famous philosopher once wrote...
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Post by matt on Mar 8, 2024 17:13:49 GMT -5
Good luck man, keep up the writing!
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Post by matt on Mar 8, 2024 17:12:40 GMT -5
Imagine if The Smiths' self-titled debut album had had this tracklisting... A1. Reel Around the Fountain A2. This Charming Man A3. Pretty Girls Make Graves A4. What Difference Does It Make? A5. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle B1. Still Ill B2. Hand in Glove B3. You've Got Everything Now B4. I Don't Owe You Anything B5. Suffer Little Children I think that would've been killer-diller! About as good as that album could have been without re-recording it all a third time.
'Miserable Lie' could've been kept back for the 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now' single, released three months later. That way they wouldn't have had to re-release 'Suffer Little Children' to fill the quota of two B-sides for every A-side. And it would've got the song out the way. I don't think it was even remotely good enough for an album. Especially not when gems such as 'Handsome Devil', 'Jeane', 'Accept Yourself', 'These Things Take Time' and 'Back to the Old House' had been B-sides.
I think 99% of all Smiths songs were at the very least 8/10 in quality. But Miserable Lie is my least favourite and probably the only Smiths song I don't like. I think it's a horrendous recording, hard to believe they were in a studio paying good money to record that. It's unbelievably tinny and not a fan of Morrissey's shrieking in the second half. The only song of theirs where I think nothing works.
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